DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Tuesday, Sept. 7, the 250th day of 2021. There are 115 days left in the year.
On this date:
1812: The Battle of Borodino took place as French troops clashed with Russian forces outside Moscow. (The battle, ultimately won by Russia, was commemorated by composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky with his “1812 Overture.”)
1936: Rock-and-roll legend Buddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas.
1940: Nazi Germany began its eightmonth blitz of Britain during World War II with the first air attack on London.
1972: The International Olympic Committee banned Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett of the U.S. from further competition for talking to each other on the victory stand in Munich during the playing of the “Star-spangled Banner” after winning the gold and silver medals in the 400-meter run.
1977: The Panama Canal treaties, calling for the U.S. to eventually turn over control of the waterway to Panama, were signed by President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos.
1986: Desmond Tutu was installed as the first Black clergyman to lead the Anglican Church in southern Africa.
1996: Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and mortally wounded on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later.
2005: Police and soldiers went house to house in New Orleans to try to coax the last stubborn holdouts into leaving the city shattered by Hurricane Katrina.
2007: Osama bin Laden appeared in a video, telling Americans they should convert to Islam if they wanted the war in Iraq to end.
2008: Troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placed in government conservatorship.
2015: Hillary Clinton, interviewed by The Associated Press during a campaign swing through Iowa, said she did not need to apologize for using a private email account and server while at the State Department because “what I did was allowed.”
2017: One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in Mexico struck off the country’s southern coast, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing at least 90 people.
2019: President Donald Trump said he had canceled a secret weekend meeting at Camp David with Taliban and Afghan leaders, just days before the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, after a bombing in Kabul that killed 12 people, including an American soldier.
Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins is 91. Singer Gloria Gaynor is 78. Actor Susan Blakely (“The Towering Inferno”) is 73. Actor Julie Kavner (“The Simpsons”) is 71. Singer Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders is 70. Actor Corbin Bernsen is 67. Actor
Michael Emerson (“Lost”) is 67. Pianist Michael Feinstein is 65. Songwriter Diane Warren is 65. Singer Margot Chapman (Starland Vocal Band) is 64. Comedian Leslie Jones (“Saturday Night Live”) is 54. Model Angie Everhart is 52. Actor Diane Farr (“Rescue Me”) is 52. Actor Tom Everett Scott (“Southland”) is 51. Actor Shannon Elizabeth (“American Pie”) is 48. Actor
Alyssa Diaz (“The Rookie”) is 36. Actor
Evan Rachel Wood is 34.